The Testament of Beauty. A Poem in Four Books. [Eighth Impression].
by BRIDGES Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Clarendon Press, Oxford,, [1930]. 8vo., Eighth Impression, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original full faux-vellum, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. With the separately printed 4pp Publisher's Note on the Text bound in at rear. Published six months after the first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15911
- Title
- The Testament of Beauty. A Poem in Four Books. [Eighth Impression].
- Author
- BRIDGES Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press, Oxford,
- Date Published
- [1930]
- Keywords
- modern firsts, bridges, poets laureate, laureates, robert bridges, modern first editions, testament, beauty
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About the Seller
Island Books
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Thakeham, West Sussex
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- Gilt
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.